Successes

Fighting for truth in drilling

Fighting for truth in drilling

September 2012

EWG assembled a coalition of more than 100 grassroots consumer, religious, public health and environmental organizations from 20 states to call on the Obama administration to stop deceptive oil and gas leasing practices that undermine property values and mortgages. EWG sent a letter signed by each organization to the federal Financial Consumer Protection Bureau, Federal Housing Finance Agency and attorneys general of states with growing oil and natural gas drilling industries.